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OWNERS TRYING TO REDUCE EXPENSES. Maintaining a racing stable in England is. an expensive enterprise. It is not a cheap business anywhere, but there the charges to which an owner must submit are more numerous and on a higher scale .than prevails in any other racing country. The cost of stabling at the track, feed and transportation is excessively .high, unreasonably so. , Grumbling and Ineffectual attempts to secure concessions from the track governors have for years, past been a feature of English racing. This condition culminated in the formation last year of the Racehorse Owners Association, the purpose of the organization being to secure through combination lower charges In the matter of stall " rent and other minor exactions, which individual efforts had failed to obtain. Pursuing a very hoggish lKilicy the track owners and officials have antagonized this by banding In an organization pledged to concede nothing. The Jockey .Club, which could easily settle the whole matter, pursues a policy of absolute neutrality, but many of the highest placed and best known turfmen have allied with the Race- horse .Owners Association and it Is understood King Edward Is favorable to the ends sought. 1 The council consists of Lord Carnarvon, Lord Marcus Beresford. Lord West bury. Lord Hamilton, of Dalzell, Sir Henry Randall. W. M. G. Singer, W. Bass. .Captain Orr-Ewlng. Colonel B. M. Dansey and F. Luscombe, who is also honorary secretary. The other members are: E. Lamb. M.P.: y. P. Misa, Mr. Peebles. J. L. Dugdale. W. II. Schwind, Captain Berwick. Lord Clonmell, Sir Edgar Vincent, Colonel W. Hall Walker. Sir C. Nugent. Captain -Forester, Major Joicey, Sir Robert Jardine, J. C. Sullivan, Colonel BIrkin, Ernest Dresden. J. Simons Harrison. E. L. Heinemaun, O. W. Rayner, Douglas Clark, L. E. B. Ilomnn, G. A. Prentice, .and It Is felt that in the long run such an organiza-. tion must prevail in Its purpose. In the meantime it Is purely a movement by owners for their own benefit and Is .not one of such .Importance as to. attract an extraordinary degree of public notice In England.
